This Study Guide consists of approximately 76 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more -
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Part I, P. 40 to end, Part II, to P. 79 Summary

Chapter 4: The narrative returns to 1939, with the Germans looking for the Golem of Prague. The Golem is concealed in an apartment building. Meanwhile, there is chaos, as the Jews are concentrated in a ghetto, and families are doubled up in apartments. Kornblum and Joe pretend to be taking a survey, in order to look for the Golem. They are unable to get into apartment #42 and plan to break into it at night. They break in, and a woman comes out with a gun. A man named Max comes out and recognizes Kornblum as an old friend from the Hofzinsen Club. The apartment is a house of prostitution and Joe loses his virginity. The next day, Kornblum finds out that the children in the building know of one...